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A Whirlwind week

I had great intentions of updating my blog once I got home, but I haven’t had a chance! So I’ve decided to do a weekly blog instead. Hopefully I will update my South American & African blog when I can.

So here goes….

Sculpture by the Sea Sunday 14 November 2010

This year we have decided to try out volunteering for different organisations and Sculpture by the Sea was our first choice. Sunday was our last day of volunteering.

We first saw the sculptures in October when we went to Bondi with Laura and Paul ending up drinking Champagne at the wonderful Icebergs Club!!!

Part of the volunteering experience was = working with the Artists, Sally & Sam. I loved it. They devised great workshops for students and providing a helping hand was great fun.

Sally’s sculpture - a table and chairs, covered in a grass “cloth” It looked stunning on the headland. Her workshop involved teachers in “growing” a picnic table back at school using a cloth embedded with seeds.

Students at the workshop used their creative skills to make “food” for their picnic tables. Sushi, pizza, sandwiches, kebabs of all colours and sizes quickly appeared. These too were embedded in seeds and would “sprout” and create an interesting “sculpture” back at school.

Unfortunately, the weather was terrible and by the end of two sessions of 30 kids (Yr 2 & Yr6), I was glad to escape the muddy feet and umbrellas and battle my way along the coast to catch the bus home. Having said that the sculptures really did look magnificent against the stormy skies.

Sam’s Workshop

This was a much more relaxed workshop in that students were given a free reign to develop sculptures - Yr 9 & Yr 12 this time. One Burmese student (only been in Oz for aa few weeks, created an incredible sculpture. First shot from my iphone so not the best!

So to our final day… much more mundane checking bags and monitoring the small exhibits tent. Ho Hum!

We had planned to go to the party at the Icebergs but found the thought of an evening at home very appealing!

Enjoy the sculptures!